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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 39

.S.To Call Some 3-A Men ‘Soon,’ Draft Boards Told

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RITISH OPEN ‘2D FRONT IN. AIR

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Is Reduced. (Another Story, Page 2) New 3-B Class for Essen- average Indianapolis resident ate, . drank and left unstirred in the tial Workers Set Up; 3-A | bottom of his cup, approximately To Follow 1-A.

WASHINGTON, April 25 (U, 2 “~Foreseeing a shortage of men | available for army service, sélesiive) service headquarters today ordered | local draft boards to tighten up de- | pendency deferments and to pre-| pare for eventual

119 pounds of sugar. In the year starting Monday A. S. R. (after sugar rationing) we will consume only 34 pounds each. !

induction of! non-essential” men even with dependents. “The induction of men into the armed forces may soon use up the supply of pliysically-fit men available . for ‘military service under present selective service policies,” a memorandum to state directors warned.

New Class Set Up

To provide nrore men, these two steps were ordered: 1. Dependency deferments are to be re-examined with a view to reclassifying 3-A men if it is found their dependents could achieve “an adequate measure of support” from other means, or if it is found that the dependency was acquired to avoid military service. Thus if it appears that a 3-A man married, or decided to have a child, to avoid induction, he will be put in Class 1| | for service." w= 2. Those who have genuine de- " pendents are to be broken up into two groups: 3-A, those men deferred for dependency and who are employed in non-essential jobs, and 3-B, those men deferred for dependency who are employed in jobs essential to the war effort. When the supply of 1-A men is exhausted, -3-A’s then would be called.

Allowance Law Comes First

“Your share of sugar for a week. ! . half a pound.

This is because Washington has ordered all retail sugar stocks . frozen and sales halted during the ‘week beginning Monday. During the first two months of rationing the allowance will be half a pound a week. (Officials estimate that the allowance will vary and the year’s limit will be 34 pounds per person.)

The memorandum to state direc- | tors said that “war requirements’ may compel induction of registrants’ with dependents into the armed forces.” Officials said this probably | would be “soon” in some areas. No men with dependents will be’ drafted. in any, event until congress passes allowance and allocation legislation which would authorize government contributions to the support of soldiers’ and sailors’ dependents.

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Where Do You Like

Your Sugar Best?

UNDER THE. HALF pound a week order you'll be able to swig 34'; cups of coffee each week—if you use one heaping teaspoon of sugar per cup. Or, if you eat oatmeal with two teaspoonfuls of sugar, you can have 121; bowls a week. Cakes will just about exhaust one person's allowance. Pies, however, are less of a strain on the sugar budget and with your share of the nation’s about two sour cherry pies. Iced tea for the coming hot weather months will also be a problem but if you're willing to take everything else sour and your tea sweet you should be able to

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DRIVER, 19, HELD IN HIT-RUN FATALITY

Allison Worker Killed and Another Is Injured.

The driver of an alleged hit-and-run car was arrested by state police last night less than a block from | the scene of an accident in which jan Allison worker was killed and | another slightly -injured. | Wilbur Callahan, 49, of 2850 Wi ithrop ave. the victim, and Curtis Baker, 45, of 2901 Guilford ave. were struck by a car while crossing in W. 10th st, 4800 block. Mr. Callahdh died a few minutes later

Avoid Hardships

It was emphasized that the order will work “no unnecessary hardships,” and that all available physically fit men with: no dependents would be called first. Degree of dependency should be determined by the “measure of support which is considered adequate] in accordance with the prevaiilng standards in the community at the time of classification or .reclassification,” the memorandum said. Local boards’ were instructed to apply the new order immediately to the 20-21 and 35-44 age groups who were registered last Feb. 16 and -are now being. classified, and to other registrants. as soon as conveniently possible. , It was disclosed that .approXimately 65 per cent of all mén classified .to date have been deferred for - dependents.

Coy Appointed To Budget Post

WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. , P.)—~Wayne Coy, liaison officer far the office of emergency management, has been named assistant “director of

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MOST NURSING HOMES “UNFIT” PROBERS FIND

Committee’s Majority and| ~ Minority Reports Differ On Law.

The committee formed recently to investigate private nursing homes in Indianapolis repbdrted today that most of the homes are unfit to care for aged and sick persons. Tie report was signed by three of the five members of the committee, Wilbur A.. Royse, chairman; Mrs. R. G. Grosskopf, president of the Seventh District Federation of Women's Clubs, and Mrs. Laura E. Ray, president of the Indianapolis uncil of Women. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, and Thomas L. Neal, county welfare director, declined to sign the report. | All five agree that most of the homes are unfit to care for infirm persons. The split arises over an interpretation of the law. Ruling Is Asked | The three who signed the report! ‘contend that the county welfare de- | | partment should exercise author-| \ity over the nursing homes. The! jiwo minority members insist that (welfare departments are forbidden IY law to do so. Leading out of this, a ruling has been asked from the attorney general. The majority report, in part:

SATURDAY, APRIL

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protected by fighter planes | can raid this area by day

Day and night the bombers of

dustrial interiors of Germany and Italy as shown on the map. Two of the cities in today’s news, Luebeck and Rostock, are indicated. Flushing, also heavily attacked, is on one of

Rotterdam.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoftice, Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.

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the united nations are hammering at the Nazi submarine vases and in-

the islands between Ostend and

Our investigation has progressed | sufficiently to reach the conclusion |

that much of the responsibility for {these conditions rests with the | county and state welfare departments. “The county welfare department las late as February of this year furnished to applicants for old age "assistance the names of badly ‘equipped homes which professed to |care for such persons. “It is a fact that among the names furnished infirm persons by the welfare department were the names of home operators whose | places were classified as bad by an | investigator of the state welfare | (Continued on Page Two)

MERCHANT VESSEL FIGHTS SUBMARINE

‘Battles for Half Hour Until

U. S. Help Arrives.

NEW YORK, April 25 (U. P).—| | The captain ¢f a Norwegian mer-| {chantman told - today how his| ‘ship fought a running gun battle with a submarine for-nearly a half | {hour until a United States warship, 'a blimp and a natrol plane came to’ the rescue. The battle occurred: about 100 miles off the Atlantic coast. The ship was not sunk although 50 to 60 shells were fired at and into it before the rescue forces arvived. The warship dropped death! bomb after depth bomb while the plane and the blimp hovered overead looking for the sub, but there (was no evidence that the submarine | was hit. : The captain, Hans Nielsen, said this ‘crew fired about 14 shells at the U-boat. That exhausted the ammunition on deck and the crew could not obtain more because of a

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“fire in the ammunition room.

Capt. Nielsen said about 25 per nt of the sub shells hit his ship and that he barely missed being! hit when a shell crashed “within | | four feet of the bridge, but the ves-' sel made port safely.”

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reau. The OEM is the oves-all administrative agency over the war production board and other special war agencies. Mr, Coy'’s title here- : tofore has been ; simply OEM Mr. Coy liaison officer. He said the new post would give him some additional duties. Mr. Coy, 38, is a native of Shelby county, Ind. He worked for several years as a newspaperman, and in 1937 was taken to the Philippine islands by Paul V. McNutt, then high commissioner of the Philippines, as. his administrative assistant. Mr... McNutt brought him to | Washington in 1939 as assistant administrator of the federal security. agency. He was named a to President,

refused to: go to the hospital. James Buell, an Allison patrolman, told state police the car continued on and was involved in a collision with another auto less than a block away from the fatal efccident. Police Accuse Driver

State troopers Carl Galloway and Ollie Layton were cruising in their squad car a short distance from the accident. ; They said the driver of the death car was Joseph Caldwell, 19, of 4012 W. Michigan st. He was charged with reckless homicide, drunkenness, operating a car under the influence of liquor, hit and run and ilure to have a drivers’ license. He is "held in the Marion county jail under $2000 bond. Mitchell C. Johnson, 19, of 2349 W. Morris st., a companion of Caldwell’s who police said was. owner of the car, was chal with drunkenness and is held under a

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'MIKHAILOVITCH SEIZED?

STOCKHOLM, April 25 (U. P.).| —The newspaper Aftonbladet reported from Berlin tonight that the Germans were claiming capture of Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch, leader of the Serbian guerrilla army still fighting in the mountains of Jugoslavia. .

FLIER GETS NAVY CROSS NEW ORLEANS, April 25 (U.P.). —Lieut. James W. Robb Jr. U. S. N., who flew over Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 armed only with Springfield! rifles in a search for Japanese at-| tackers, today received the navy! cross. Robb is 29 and a ‘native of] {Staten Island, N.Y.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

a.m. ... 7a. m.... 59 .8a. m ... 65

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10a. m. ... 14 | i1.a. m....% 12 (noon) .. 79 1pm. ... 18

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff ot the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, April 25.—Biggest question mark of coming anti-inflation message has to do with wages. F. D. R. wants to accomplish two things: of living spiral, head off sweeping labor legislation. Congress and country wait to see if he has discovered magic

formula for doing both. Best guess is that unions will

better paid workers, war labor board will be told not to grant them. Time limit may be set for trial of voluntary plan, legislation threat-

ened if it fails.

Labor department figures give labor leaders good excuse for

quieting down. start of war;

They show cost

Farley May Turn Up in U.

DON'T BE SURPRISED if Jim Farley shows up somewhere in the government. service before long. OCD’s a possibility, with Dean Landis moving on to another war job. Jim wants to be'the next

governor of New York. And he

withstanding. E- ” ”

Pierre.laval will have to use

get full collaboration with Hitler, mean revolution, bloody French streets. Estimate is that 95 per cent

of France is anti-Nazi. 2 » 5

Questions heard here: What has become of Gen. Maxime Weygand, until recently strongest military backer of Marshal Petain? Will he lead an anti-Laval, anti-Nazi move? Hitler forced him out of the north African command.

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is getting estimates on converting the furnace at his home to coal.

” ” ” President's message may settle

ways and means committee is for it. House is too, apparently. But if F.D.R. puts his foot down hard, situation probably will change. The (Continued on Page Two) x

average hourly industrial earnings up 26 per: cent; average weekly industrial earnings up 46 per cent because of longer hours, overtime.

CHINESE FACING.

PRICE THREE CENTS

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900,000 . OF BOMBS

BALTIC CITY

3 | 500 Fighter Planes Make Biggest Air Attack Qf War on Submarine Base in Holland; 200 Acres lof Luebeck Razed. |

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

LONDON, April 25.—There is a second front. It is in the air, waged by the rdyal air force. After some days of inactivity caused by bad weather, the royal air force offensive against Germany is now again in full flight on a scale never reached before. In daylight raids teday British planes in unrevealed numbers attacked the docks at Cherbourg, Dunkirk and Calais along the French coast. Yestggday, in the biggest fighter attack of this war, 1500 to British planes blasted the German submarine depot at Flushing, Holland, while bombers, for the second night in succession, idl the Heinkel plane factories and the Neptune submarine yards at the German Baltic port of Rostock. 111 : The weight of the attack on Rostock of the past two nights exceeded even that which left Luebeck a mass of smoking ruins. Britain's biggest bombers, from a low level, ' havé drépped ‘900,000 pounds of high-explosive bombs | Rostock. | | Three Factories Attacked

Three Heinkel aircraft plants, at Rostock, and another

TRAP IN BURMA

Whole Allied Line Periled By Jap Advance Toward Mandalay.

By UNITED PRESS ~ News from the Far East today ‘continued adverse for the allies. In Burma the powerful Japanese ‘drive up the eastern flank to the Taunggyi sector, about 100 miles ‘southeast of Mandalay, was threat|ening to encircle Chinese forces on the Sittang river front and to collapse the whole allied defense lines. Meager reports from the. battle fronts indicated that the Chinese

repeatedly were counter-attacking superior Japanese forces, which had tank and airplane support.

Lae Raided Again Mandalay again was heavily bombed and there was little to indicate that the allied forces could form any solid new defense front ‘against the enemy flanking man- | euvers. American and allied air squadrons from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's command made another raid on the Japanese base of Lae. on New

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of living up 154 per cent since

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The planes dumped heavy bomb loads on their Japanese targets and fought off seven enemy fighters which tried vainly to - intercept them. : On the Russian front, there appeared to be little change in positions, although Gen. K. A. Meretskovls armies on the northern front were said to have advanced 45 miles

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Report Anti-Axis Unrest ~ Growing Over All Europe

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign Editor Officials of refugee governments in London today made public reports that guerrilla and wunderground opposition to the axis in occupied Europe is increasing. In Belgium, it was reportéd that an average of 25 Belgians were being executed monthly by the Germans due to sabotage and other forms of opposition but despite the executions “the opposition is daily becoming more violent.” In Serbia, the guerrilla army of 150,000 men under Gen. Draja Mihailovitch. was reported active again but their difficulties were indicated by an appeal to London for more arms and ammunition. ians were said to be in a position to rally additional guerrilla forces if they could maintain a channel for supplies. In Augusta, Sicily, it was reported that the Italian police were forced to use clubs to break ij a demon

through forests and bogs in a furious battle.

THE COMMANDER

Guinea island, north of Australia.!

The Serb-|

stration against Germans and that a number of Italian army and navy officers had been arrested following a meeting which the fascists believed to be subversive.

| Bulgarian authorities were making| mass arrests at the Black sea port! of Varna, where some 5000 ns! were seized. f A report via Stockholm said\that the Germans had closed Athens university because of student demonstrations. In France, it was reported that Hitler had sent 46-year-old Prince Josias, a pioneer Nazi, to take charge secretly of the campaign against the anti-axis terrorists. The | prince was said to have the job of co-ordinating the work of German | police with the French police forces! under Pierre Laval in an effort to end sabotage and attac:s on occu- | | pation troops. Free French headquarters in

The Russian radio reported that!

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Board to List FDR During |

White House Ceremony.

WASHINGTON, April 25 (U. P).| —President Roosevelt will register | under the selective service act on Monday along with some 13,000,000 other men from 45 to 64, inclusive. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said there had been some doubt whether Mr. Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief of the nation’s armed forces, would be required to register but that investigation showed he “is not exempt.” Chairman James D. Hayes of Washington's draft board No. & will visit the White House personally to supervise the presidential registration, and other members of the Bm

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JORDAN FESTIVAL

| eight miles to the nbrth, at Warnemuende, which is also a seaplane base and train ferry port to Denmark, were hit last night. $ | One bomber pilot | reported the smoke w were unable to penetrate it.” Rostock may prove to have suffered even more than | Luebeck, which from p otographs taken by fliers, was obvie ‘ously badly battered in the March, 28 raid. Pictures pubs [lished in all the London newspapers today show the entire ‘center of Luebeck—an. area of more than 200 acres—devas=

tated and roofless. «| “Luebecked” Is New Word,

It is from Luebeck that German troops and supplies go to the northern Russian| front. ; (Two hundred acres|is roughly the area between Capis, tol ave. and Pennsylvania st. and North and South sts. in Indianapolis, almost a third of the “Mile Square.” Luebeck’s population before the war was just larger than Ft. Wayne's,

about a third that of Indianapolis.) | The word “Luebecked” to describe a devastating attack appeared to have taken its place in war terminology beside “Coventrize,” which became familiar after the German dee * struction ‘of the factory town of Coventry in England. In the operations reported yesterday and last night the British said they lost 16 bombers and fighters, which was regarded as a remarkably low percentage of loss in view of the fact that hune dreds of R. A. F. planes took par in the big-scale raids. | Authoritative informants said the | royal air force. was still pursuing its policy of concentrating attacks on militarily important targets instead BURMA: Japanese make progr $h10F sitacking civilian areas indis= in savage flank attack aim ; Fe It was believed, however, that Rostock, which "is both a plane and submarine manufacturing cene ter, had been systematically leveled, (Rostock is a city slightly larger than Hammond, Ind.) “We've Luebecked Rostock,” one of the pilots who took part in Thursday. night's raid said on his | return. . One of the Rostock bombers came

back badly damaged. e captain ordered all but two _fiembers of.

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P| N ew over the town at 1000 feet but

x so dense ‘that even searchlights

On the War Fronts

(April 25, 1942)

WESTERN EUROPE: British continue greatest air offensive of war with attacks on submarine depot at Flushing and Heinkel plane factory and shipyards at Ros

RUSSIA: “Advance of 45 miles |in forest on northern front claimed.

Chinese army.

AUSTRALIA: American and A tralian planes oomb Japanese base at Lae on New Guinea, d age runways of airport and barracks and buildings.

OCCUPIED EUROPE: Discontent reported growing; Nazis step up executions; Gen. Mihailovich ap-

peals for supplies. TO BE HELD MAY 8.9 Indianapolis’ major spring musi event, the annual festival of Amer ican music, will be presented by the

Jordan Conservatory of Music uy Eddie Ash, ... 10 Inside Indpls.. 7 der the direction of Fabien Sevitzky, Amusements. . 14) Movies 14 Indianapolis symphony conductor, Called to Colors 7| Obituaries . Friday and Saturday night, May 8 Churches .... 6|Pegler and 9. | Clapper 7! Pyle The Priday night music program|| Comics will be given at the Scottish Rite| Crossword Cathedral while tne Saturday night| Editorials .... concert is to be presented at the |Peter Edson .. Murat theater. Mr. Sevitzky will (Mrs. Ferguson 8|Serial Story . 13 . direct the fully instrumented Jor- 0!Side Glances. @ dan symphony orchestra. The 200voice Butler-Jordan choir also will

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